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Check out the new US passport

33 points by megamike 3mo ago

sscaryterry 3mo ago
Is this for real?
- joezydeco 3mo ago
  The passport is real, this style of book will be a limited-edition option when you renew. The article, though, is AI slop.
  - mtmail 3mo ago
    The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.
    - tough 3mo ago
      Its entirely possible they still used some sort of AI to either transcript or edit their content tho, even if personally dictated by them etc. At which point slop becomes human authorship depends on your POV i guess
      - forestry 3mo ago
        That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.
        tough 3mo ago
        Yeah, it might be not AI Slop, what I was trying to confer, it's using the hallmarks of AI like the em-dashes etc, and yes i know "Good writing" contained this much before AI was trained on it, i guess i just meant to say i can see why someone at first sight could get confused on if its AI or not memerely due to formatting. But yeah, that's not "Slop"
    - netsharc 3mo ago
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    - unmole 3mo ago
      > Most of the article is a quote The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.
- ccvannorman 3mo ago
  yes but it's an optional limited edition run
  - rorylawless 3mo ago
    And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.
  - pseudohadamard 3mo ago
    For the moment, anyway.
stevenalowe 3mo ago
'“Welcome, but be good” is not the language of citizenship. It is the language of a landlord. Or a bouncer. Or a king.' Double creepy with the dog-growling posture in the picture, with a side of dumb, as passports are not visas. The point about merging the "brand" of the USA with the "brand" of Trump is spot on; definitely a disturbing pattern here. Narcissist of fascist? Why not both?
- mslt 3mo ago
  More importantly, the US isn’t the one welcoming someone holding a US passport, so the phrase is nonsense and reflects a complete lack of understanding or at least thought as to the purpose of the document
warumdarum 3mo ago
Integrate or be deported. Try to culturally take over and experience the same. You joined a recipe that works from a place that does not work (as well). Some not at all. Do not bring that recipe for cultural disaster into this country.
- mindslight 3mo ago
  Appeals to culture are so cringe in the context of support for Con-ald fucking Grump, who has been the worst thing to happen to our culture and our country in my lifetime. Exhibit A: this train wreck of a "passport". I know you desperately want there to be some innate quality you personally possess that is responsible for "great" things, but the only thing you're actually demonstrating is utterly hopeless gullibility.
  - warumdarum 3mo ago
    Your refusal to even analyze the topic, which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition " gives the game away. Every place that mindset was allowed to run free has burned down to cinders, one way or another. 1 billion people are stuck in learned helplessness in the islamic world. The atheism of the soviet block eats itself right now in a invasion of ukraine. Europe is a getontocratic powderkeg of parallel societies. Everything this "anti-culture" has touched, withers and dies, and all that remains is the hateful comments and insult, of the disabled unable to even comprehend where his failures even originate from,loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act. Oh and btw fuck trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose without any attempt to understand human nature.
    - mindslight 3mo ago
      > Your refusal to even analyze the topic No, I do think culture is important. As I said, exhibit A: a passport design based on cult-of-personality rather than any lofty values of citizenship. Move over Lady Liberty - we've got this angry old guy, well past his prime, hunched over and glaring at you instead. > which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition" I don't know who you are imagining here, but it's not me. > trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose Here is what you refuse to understand - Grump is not a "break away" but rather a further full-on embrace of our society's sickness, merely dressed up in different buntings. That exact "loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act" you've put your finger on but are too invested in to even recognize it. You've mistaken rambling screeds for focused criticism, destruction for reform, and condemnation by your fellow countrymen for success.

33 points by megamike 3mo ago

sscaryterry 3mo ago

Is this for real?

joezydeco 3mo ago
The passport is real, this style of book will be a limited-edition option when you renew. The article, though, is AI slop.
- mtmail 3mo ago
  The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.
  - tough 3mo ago
    Its entirely possible they still used some sort of AI to either transcript or edit their content tho, even if personally dictated by them etc. At which point slop becomes human authorship depends on your POV i guess
    - forestry 3mo ago
      That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.
      - tough 3mo ago
        Yeah, it might be not AI Slop, what I was trying to confer, it's using the hallmarks of AI like the em-dashes etc, and yes i know "Good writing" contained this much before AI was trained on it, i guess i just meant to say i can see why someone at first sight could get confused on if its AI or not memerely due to formatting. But yeah, that's not "Slop"
  - netsharc 3mo ago
    [dead]
  - unmole 3mo ago
    > Most of the article is a quote The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.
ccvannorman 3mo ago
yes but it's an optional limited edition run
- rorylawless 3mo ago
  And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.
- pseudohadamard 3mo ago
  For the moment, anyway.

stevenalowe 3mo ago

'“Welcome, but be good” is not the language of citizenship. It is the language of a landlord. Or a bouncer. Or a king.' Double creepy with the dog-growling posture in the picture, with a side of dumb, as passports are not visas. The point about merging the "brand" of the USA with the "brand" of Trump is spot on; definitely a disturbing pattern here. Narcissist of fascist? Why not both?

mslt 3mo ago
More importantly, the US isn’t the one welcoming someone holding a US passport, so the phrase is nonsense and reflects a complete lack of understanding or at least thought as to the purpose of the document

warumdarum 3mo ago

Integrate or be deported. Try to culturally take over and experience the same. You joined a recipe that works from a place that does not work (as well). Some not at all. Do not bring that recipe for cultural disaster into this country.

mindslight 3mo ago
Appeals to culture are so cringe in the context of support for Con-ald fucking Grump, who has been the worst thing to happen to our culture and our country in my lifetime. Exhibit A: this train wreck of a "passport". I know you desperately want there to be some innate quality you personally possess that is responsible for "great" things, but the only thing you're actually demonstrating is utterly hopeless gullibility.
- warumdarum 3mo ago
  Your refusal to even analyze the topic, which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition " gives the game away. Every place that mindset was allowed to run free has burned down to cinders, one way or another. 1 billion people are stuck in learned helplessness in the islamic world. The atheism of the soviet block eats itself right now in a invasion of ukraine. Europe is a getontocratic powderkeg of parallel societies. Everything this "anti-culture" has touched, withers and dies, and all that remains is the hateful comments and insult, of the disabled unable to even comprehend where his failures even originate from,loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act. Oh and btw fuck trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose without any attempt to understand human nature.
  - mindslight 3mo ago
    > Your refusal to even analyze the topic No, I do think culture is important. As I said, exhibit A: a passport design based on cult-of-personality rather than any lofty values of citizenship. Move over Lady Liberty - we've got this angry old guy, well past his prime, hunched over and glaring at you instead. > which you usually declare "just backwards folklore and superstition" I don't know who you are imagining here, but it's not me. > trump for trying a soft aspossible break away from this malstrom of failure that is the society your kind tries to compose Here is what you refuse to understand - Grump is not a "break away" but rather a further full-on embrace of our society's sickness, merely dressed up in different buntings. That exact "loudly demanding decomplexification of society as final murderous act" you've put your finger on but are too invested in to even recognize it. You've mistaken rambling screeds for focused criticism, destruction for reform, and condemnation by your fellow countrymen for success.